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by Karellen
786 days ago
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> The file systems of Unix machines all have the same general structure. [...] Note the obsessive use of abbreviations and avoidance of capital letters; this is a system invented by people to whom repetitive stress disorder is what black lung is to miners. Long names get worn down to three-letter nubbins, like stones smoothed by a river. -- Neal Stephenson, In the Beginning Was the Command Line (Ch. 14), 1999 https://steve-parker.org/articles/others/stephenson/oral.sht... |
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